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Once called a purgatory, the city had a large Indian presence. But that dwindled over time.
My most recent visits to Kerala have only helped confirm fears that societal pressure for young middle-class people to seek greener pastures is only growing. One would be hard-pressed to find families who aren’t keen on sending their children to the West or developed societies like Singapore for
For the British, Lieutenant-Colonel James Campbell (1787-1858) was a war hero who played an important role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. He also belonged to the class of military administrators that served in distant outposts of the empire, including New Zealand,
Over the centuries, there have been many stories of piracy in the waters off Kerala. For instance, the Portuguese, the real pirates, used the term to describe the Kunjali Marakkars, the naval commanders who served the Zamorin of Calicut. Once the British established control of the seas surrounding
Shaji N Karun’s film Piravi, which won the 1989 Camera d’Or-Mention d’honneur, showcased the horrors of the 1975 Emergency to an entirely new generation.
When Malayali friends heard I would be spending some time in Palakkad in April, I was warned against it. “It’s literally a cauldron at this time,” a well-wisher said, suggesting I hold off until the onset of the monsoons. While the weather was definitely on the warmer side (by Indian standards),
At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, Omeo, in Australia’s Victoria state was a boomtown, thanks to a gold rush. With wealth and prosperity came an awareness to know more about the world. To fill this need, a newspaper named The Omeo Mining and Standard Gazette published articles about faraway
By the time 32-year-old George Amos Dorsey, a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, came to southern India, he had already established a reputation as an ethnographer of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. On a world tour that covered more than 75,000 kilometres, Dorsey ended
Given the sheer magnitude of loot and plunder that took place in India over the centuries, the name William Kidd would not ring a bell for those familiar with infamous characters of yesteryear. The Dundee-born sailor came to be known as the pirate Captain Kidd at the end of the 17th century when he
Records indicate that the Germans first arrived in Calicut in 1834 before moving up to Mangalore in the north and Palakkad (then spelt Palghat) in the south.
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